tvpvrd - (TV Personal Video Recorder Daemon). A Unix server/daemon to make scheduled recordings of TV broadcasts using one or multiple Video capture cards with optional automatic transcoding (using ffmpeg)

Features

  • Client server architecture with automatic client arbitration
  • Multi threaded, multi process architecture
  • Simultaneous recording using multiple capture cards
  • Multi transcoding with user defined profiles
  • Automatic load balancing with queue management for transcoding
  • Efficient command language to manipulate and schedule recordings
  • Easy to use support for recurring recordings, daily, weekly, workdays, etc
  • Self contained XML based recording database
  • Small footprint and efficient TCP/IP port command interface
  • Optional password protected login
  • Large File Support (LFS) to enable recorded files with sizes >2GB
  • Full UTF-8 support for strings
  • Extensive logging, statistics and information available from server
  • Possible to configure as master/slave for distributed transcoding
  • Built in micro-web server to allow easy browser acess
  • Themeable WEB-interface automatically detects access from mobile phones
  • Optional mail notification (either system or built in full smtp mail client)
  • Supports recording from all available input source
  • Includes a power daemon to manage power on/off
  • Supports server wakeup/shutdown using BIOS Real Time Clock

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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User Reviews

  • I've recorded my favorite tv shows. Thanks, tvpvrd!
  • simply the best open source software.
  • Really nice project! Thanks for your job!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Works nicely! Gracias!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • It works for me, nuff said
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, System Administrators

User Interface

Console/Terminal, Web-based

Programming Language

C

Database Environment

Flat-file, XML-based

Related Categories

C Video Converters, C Video Capture Software, C Load Balancers, C Video Transcoders

Registered

2009-11-21